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Bellevue - Adult Biography
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B S8221m
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| [2015] | First edition. | Random House | xxvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO B S8221m
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CD AUDIO B S8221m
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CD AUDIO B S8221m
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| [2015] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 8 sound discs (9 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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| [2015] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xxxi, 395 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Large Print B S8221m Large Type |
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"Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure...
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Donelson - Adult Non-Fiction
818.602 W518s
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818.602 W518s
Goodlettsville - Adult Non-Fiction
818.602 W518s
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| 2016. | First edition. | Hachette Books | 260 pages ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Donelson - Adult Non-Fiction 818.602 W518s East - Adult Non-Fiction 818.602 W518s Goodlettsville - Adult Non-Fiction 818.602 W518s |
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Blackstone Audio | 5 audio discs (6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Donelson - Adult Audiobook CD AUDIO 818.602 W518s |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Book Group | English | Available Online
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Hachette Books | English | Available Online
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Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you — writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood...
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you — writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood...
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| c1996 | 1st ed. | HarperSanFrancisco | xii, 238 p. ; 2 cm. | English |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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"A masterpiece of women's wisdom."—Christiane Northrup, M.D.
"The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story."—Publishers Weekly
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, a newly reissued edition of the bestselling author's classic work of feminine spiritual discovery, with a new introduction
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Bellevue - Kids Biography
jB S8221f
Green Hills - Kids Biography
jB S8221f
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| [2014] | Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC | 105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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| 2014 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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Presents the life of the prominent feminist, highlighting her career and influence as a writer, political activist, and co-founder of "Ms." magazine.
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B V155s
Inglewood - Adult Biography
B V155s
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B V155s
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| 2016. | First edition. | Dey Street Books | 204 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography B V155s Inglewood - Adult Biography B V155s Main Library - Adult Biography B V155s |
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"Who would I be if I lived in a world that didn't hate women?" Hailed by the Washington Post as "one of the most visible and successful feminists of her generation," Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a memoir that Publishers Weekly calls "bold and unflinching," Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes on women's lives, from the everyday to the existential. From subway gropings...
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| [2016] | Zest Books | 223 page : illustrations ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
East - Kids Non-Fiction j305.4209 B242f |
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An introduction to the history of feminist activism in the U.S. profiles fifty notable women, including Hillary Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Roxane Gay.
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| 2019. | Abrams Books for Young Readers | 234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Edmondson Pike - Kids Biography jB A6287k |
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In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood...
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| c1995 | Dutton | 94 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction 813.54 A438a |
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| 1996 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 1996 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.
Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal
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| [2014] | Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC | 105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. | English |
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Profiles the life and accomplishments of the schoolteacher who became the most famous leader of the women's rights movement.
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Bordeaux - Adult Movie
DVD 305.42092 N889o
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Presents the history of women's suffrage in the United States through the dramatic, often turbulent friendship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony. Part 1 covers the years from their youth up to the establishment of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. Part 2 spans the period from 1868 to the passage in 1919 of the 19th amendment to the Constitution which gave women the vote.
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| 2000 | 1st ed. | Scholastic Press | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Kids Biography has 2 jB B6556c |
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Amelia Bloomer, who does not behave the way nineteenth-century society tells her a proper lady should, introduces pantaloons to American women to save them from the discomfort of their heavy, tight dresses.
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| c1983 | 1st ed. | Holt, Rinehart, and Winston | xi, 370 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction 305.4 S8221o |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | English | Available Online
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| 2012 | Open Road Media | English | Available Online
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This New York Times bestseller from the legendary feminist featured in the film The Two Glorias is as relevant today as when it was first published.
Spanning two decades—from the early sixties to the early eighties—the pieces in Gloria Steinem's diverse, stimulating, and often prescient first collection dare to ask how our world might change for the better if we each behaved "as if everyone mattered."
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Green Hills - Kids Biography
jB S792f
Hermitage - Kids Biography
jB S792f
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jB S792f
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| c1995 | Putnam's | 88p., ill., 24cm. | English | On Shelf
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A biography of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton from her childhood, to her fight for the end of slavery, to her death 18 years before women were granted the right to vote.
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
923.0542 M1728s
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923.0542 M1728s
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| 2014. | First edition. | Twelve | xxiv, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction 923.0542 M1728s Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction 923.0542 M1728s |
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Grand Central Publishing | English | Available Online
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Describes the adventures of two sisters who tried to overcome the male-dominated social norms of the late nineteenth century and achieved a remarkable list of firsts, including the first woman-run brokerage house and the first woman to run for president.
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Bordeaux - Kids Biography
jB A6287p
Edmondson Pike - Kids Biography
jB A6287p
Green Hills - Kids Biography
jB A6287p
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| c1998 | Millbrook Press | 48 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Bordeaux - Kids Biography jB A6287p Edmondson Pike - Kids Biography jB A6287p Green Hills - Kids Biography jB A6287p |
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Presents the highlights of the life of a nineteenth century crusader who spent much of her life involved in the temperance, abolitionist, and women's rights movements.
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Special Collections - Civil Rights Room
Special Coll. B H784b
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| 1996 | 1st ed. | Henry Holt | 183 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Special Collections - Civil Rights Room Special Coll. B H784b |
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East - Adult Biography
B A557a
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B A557a
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B A557a
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| 2017. | Simon & Schuster | 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
East - Adult Biography B A557a Green Hills - Adult Biography B A557a Hermitage - Adult Biography B A557a |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online
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| [2017] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Richland Park - Adult Audiobook Playaway B A557a |
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"Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went."--Jacket flap.
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Madison - Kids Biography
jB A6287m
Main Library - Kids Biography
jB A6287m
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| c2006 | Lerner Publications Co | 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Madison - Kids Biography jB A6287m Main Library - Kids Biography jB A6287m |
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| 1995 | Dial Press | [451]p., ill., 24cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Biography B S822h |
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| c1994 | Firebrand Books | 261 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction 814.54 A438s |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | English | Available Online
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| 2013 | Open Road Media | English | Available Online
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A collection of critical essays from award-winning author Dorothy Allison about identity, gender politics, and queer theory, now with a new prefaceLambda Award and American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award–winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through twenty-three impassioned essays that explore her identity—from her
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